In the 1970s and '80s, before he earned national acclaim for his award-winning novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, Dexter cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. With haunting urgency, his co[...]
Now a major motion picture directed by Lee Daniels starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray, with John Cusack and Nicole Kidman
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"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER
"An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has[...]
With his trademark economy of style, Dexter brings a colorful cast of characters to life in its most reckless, vulnerable moments, stripping away words and manners until all that is left is the basic human pulse.[...]
The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry.
Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a dea[...]
In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peter's father is a powerful man, a union boss with mob connections, but all the power in the world is useless to a grieving son. Raised by his uncle, Peter tr[...]
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
In this striking debut from the author of the National Book Award winner "Paris Trout, "Pete Dexter chronicles a murder and its consequences in the fictional blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood of God's Pocket.
Leon Hubbard makes other men nervous, talking to h[...]
'Somewhere in the weird badlands between Forrest GumpA" and Richard Ford... A winningly digressive all-American Bildungsroman.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent A riotous and dazzling autobiographical novel of resilience and love from the US National Book Award-winning author Pete Dexter,[...]